They can't use the "young" excuse (34 when he wrote it), they can't (won't) abandon some of the Chrsitain principles that dictate the culturally deaf tone of his projected implementation, and while homosexuals are rarely on the side of the GOP (vice versa), such comments degrading their existance will not be met with understanding other than by similar close-minded circles, which I assure you are far fewer than they once were.